BTW: I have talked to the author of zunzun about using Kolmogorov Complexity. It is doable but non-trivial.
On Fri, Nov 9, 2012 at 3:39 PM, James Bowery <[email protected]> wrote: > In the absence of Ockham's Razor, curve fitting is prone to overfitting. > > There is only one robust way of dealing with this problem: > > Kolmogorov Complexity > > > Even when you break your data up into a test set and a data set so that > you have a way of testing to see if your fit is an overfit, once you have > run your test set against your model any attempt to adjust your model is > now subject to the criticism that you are now taking your test set into > account as part of the data set you are fitting. In practice, this > criticism needn't be a show-stopper but it is ultimately problematic. > > > On Fri, Nov 9, 2012 at 2:21 PM, Jones Beene <[email protected]> wrote: > >> http://www.quantumheat.org/index.php/follow/109-fast-paced-progress >> >> Interesting technique seen in the second chart - curve matching using >> http://zunzun.com/ >> >> Any comments on this? >> >> I suppose one rationale is that if the constantan curve shows no initial >> anomaly - but it matches the formula up to a trigger point, and then >> diverges -then that adds credence. Or else if they will be looking a >> similar >> shape with a different steepness. Not sure what this curve matching adds. >> >> On the last page new data is supposedly coming in - live ! but I cannot >> get >> the page to load >> >> http://www.quantumheat.org/data/calibrations/Master_Spreadsheet11-9.xls >> >> anyone have an updated url ? >> >> Jones >> > >
